Emily Pontecorvo: I wrote about the ethanol industry's entry into carbon removal, and how it highlights key disagreements in the field about how we should define "carbon removal" in the first place. 1/2 heatmap.news/climate/what...

I wrote about the ethanol industry's entry into carbon removal, and how it highlights key disagreements in the field about how we should define "carbon removal" in the first place. 1/2 heatmap.news/climate/what...

Carbon Removal’s Existential Questionheatmap.news It starts with ethanol.

The question is especially pertinent as "offsets" fall out of fashion and everyone is searching for affordable carbon removal credits.

There's a logical argument to call this carbon removal. And incentivizing CCS at ethanol plants is a positive thing...

But it clearly doesn't provide the same benefit as something like DAC. And under current carbon market schemes, it will be counted as the same. (oops that was more than 2 posts.)

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